Why The World's Rarest Cheese (Pule Donkey Cheese) Is So Expensive | So Expensive

Pule

donkey

cheese

is the

world

's most

expensive

cheese

produced by a single farm in the

world

. Pule will cost you around 600 for a pound, so it requires more time and effort than most other cheeses; You need more than six and a half gallons of

donkey

cheese. milk only to make one kilogram of cheese, which is two and a half times more than it takes to make mozzarella. So how does poulet compare to other types of cheese and why is it so

expensive

even in the diverse world of cheese? The pulas are unique, there is only one place in the world that produces it and it is on this farm in the visa special nature reserve zaza slobodan semimic founded the reserve 24 years ago in serbia it is one of the three areas in all of the former yugoslavia that protects a special breed of endangered Balkan donkey Pulas are made from 60 percent donkey milk and forty percent goat milk and take months and many donkeys to produce.

There are only about 20 donkeys producing milk on the farm at a time and even then each one won't produce much for each donkey. It is carefully melted by hand three times a day if the farmers do not empty all the milk the donkeys will not continue to do so so today the farmers take care of 250 donkeys but they cannot always take milk from all of them similar to cows The donkey will only produce milk once that has had a baby and each will have a baby for a year and two weeks, then the farmers must wait another three months once the baby has had milk before they can begin collecting their own to make the cheese they need. 6.6 gallons of milk in total to make just one kilogram of cheese and a donkey produces less than a gallon of milk per day, which is much less than what comes from a cow that can produce up to 15 gallons of milk per day which only each donkey will produce. milk for six months then you have to wait another year to collect milk from that same donkey again the pulas are only sold on this farm and some others the reserve is associated with another factor that increases the final value the farm can produce between 50 and 70 kilograms of cheese a year, but slobodan only sells about a third of that and it's not just because of the staggering price of poulet that you can't buy poulet cheese legally in some parts of the world, even if I wanted to say that there are technical problems with the that milk cheese can be produced from any type of donkey and therefore from any farm that raises donkeys, but there is a major obstacle.

Just because you have donkey milk doesn't mean you have everything you need to make this cheese pulae. It is made in a very specific way using a recipe that is only slobodan and one. Another person in the world knows that it's because donkey milk contains less fat than milk from other animals, meaning it contains less of the casein protein that allows many other cheeses to coagulate on their own. The recipe calls for goat's milk and a secret mix of additives and bacteria this is what allows the milk to form curds an essential stage of any cheese making process without this it would not be possible to make poulet at all the cheese is finally placed into molds of 50 grams to age for a few days once removed from the molds it is placed in another room to age for at least one more month the final product is brittle and soft with a rich flavor the cost of preserving the species of donkey is another element to keep in mind when considering the enormous value of the pulley slobodan must maintain the land to buy food To buy the donkeys and hire workers to take care of them in a year, he spends about a hundred thousand dollars just to keep the farm running and Unless producing pulae becomes easier or someone in the world figures out how to do it, nothing is likely to bring down the price of this incredibly rare Serbian cheese.